Oil-cloth carpeting



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JAMES ALBRO, JR., OF ELIZABETHTOWN, NEW JERSEY.

PRINTING OIL-CLOTH CARPETING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,299, dated September 18, 184'?.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, JAMES ALBRO, Jr., of Elizabethtown, in the county of EsseX and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and Improved Methods of Printing Oil-Cloths; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same, by which others skilled in the art of oil-cloth print-ing can make and use my improvements. j

My improvements in the mode of printing oil cloth consist, first, in spreading or extending all the colors after being put on by print blocks in the ordinary way, so as to cover the ground or face of the cloth thereby preventing the colors of the cloth on which the printing is made from showing through the spaces between the peg work. This yI accomplish by a block having pegs the same as the other blocks used in the pattern, but the pegs extending over its entire surface; on the block marked A on the drawing, I place the pitches b, or guide pins half of a peg in a diagonal line from the relative position of the pitches of the other blocks, which bring the pegs of this block onto four corners of dots made by pegs of all thevother blocks; this block I place on the printing, as iinished in the ordinary way, (but do not dip it in color,) which soon becomes charged with colors, previously put on by other blocks and when raised from the print `the `pegs draw olf sufficient color to cover them'and when laid on a second print in the manner above described, it produces the desired eHect of spreading and blending the colors, and thus this block is kept constantly charged with the proper colors, as at each impression it takes a fresh supply of color from the print, thereby saving much labor andproducing a beautiful effect.

Second, in connection with the above, I

vandlevel, and giving it the appearance of have still further improved the-method of.1

velvet carpeting: This I accomplish by placing upon the work as last prepared, a block vsawed or cut into small continuous lines in place of pegs marked B on the drawing, and use it after applyingthe block marked A. It becoming charged with color inthe same way. y

What -I claim as my inventions and desire to secure by Lettersr Patent isl. The laying on to the printed oil* cloth as finished in the ordinary way, a b lock having pegs extending over its entire surface, with its pitches or guide pins so arranged that itspegs shall fall on the interstitial spaces left by the pegs of the otherblocks, producing contiguity of all the Y colirs,y without supplying additional color; 2. By applying in additionto the above,

a block cut into small continuous lines,

which blends and softens the colors and improves the effect. Either of these .blocks can be used separately or jointly. y I hereby declarefthat I donot claim to have invented what is known to oil cloth printers as raised color; the. pegs vof the second block falling upon theinterstitial spaces of the pegs bof the first block bothbeing dipped in the same color. A v I claim the, above` mentioned improve# ments whether'they` are effected in themanner herein set forth, ory in any mode substantially', the* same, producing a like eect by analagous means. 1

l Y JAMEsALBEd JR,

Witnesses: 'f

M. w. HALSEajv AUGUSTUS C. KEILOGG.

' work, by which two blocks are used'for one 

